Projects
Buoy Placement
Placement and Maintenance of Buoys
2014
PLACEMENT OF BUOYS
The buoy placement work was done under the direction of Robert Matos Morales, DNER and founding member of the Marine Reserve.
This type of Torpedo buoy was chosen because it offers less resistance to swells and is easy to identify.
Nilda Jiménez - DRNA, collaborated with the tasks of marking coordinates and the preparation of the permit application for the permit application from federal agencies.
The buoys were installed with the personnel of the DRNA Navigation Commissioner's Office.
2015
BUOY MAINTENANCE
The works directed by Robert Matos Morales, DRNA and founding member of the Marine Reserve.
The buoys must be maintained, cleaned periodically, but in addition to that, the installed buoys have been vandalized. During the year we were informing through our Facebook page of people who do not want to accept that the perimeter of the Marine Reserve is free of motor boats. Each of these buoys has a cost of $250.00. The Management Board does not have a boat, so we have to do these tasks by swimming, kayaking or borrowing a boat. The routine maintenance work was able to reinstall 6 buoys and the work could not be completed due to bad weather and lack of a boat.
2017
Maintenance and replacement of demarcation buoys in the perimeter of the Marine Reserve and in the Isla Verde channel.
The 15 buoys that were installed in 2014 have surely been vandalized by those who have been fined. Each buoy costs all of us $250.00 plus materials and labor hours.
2018
Maintenance and replacement of demarcation buoys in the perimeter of the Marine Reserve to avoid this.
TO TRY TO AVOID THIS!
That's why we have to place the buoys, make sure they don't get in. Surveillance in the last 4 years has been limited since neither the DRNA nor the Municipality of Carolina have boats to help us.
(August 22, 2018)
2019
The installation and maintenance of buoys in the sea are one of the most complicated tasks that we have to carry out. To make the situation worse, the DNER took the boat that we had acquired for the installation and maintenance of buoys to another place and disappeared.
After obtaining permission from the US Army Corps of Engineers, management carried out by Nilda Jiménez, the buoys were installed under the direction of Robert Matos, both DRNA biologists.
In 2014 we began installing 15 torpedo-type buoys around the perimeter.
We thank Kenny Pastor for lending us the boat. Signs were installed on the access ramps of the area so that motor boat operators knew about the protected marine area designated by Law 274 and Navigation Law 430 Article 7 and Vessel Regulation 6979 -Article 24. In this task we Damaris Delgado from the DRNA helped.
Vandalism was not long in coming because the jet ski operators who received the infraction ($250.) took revenge by breaking the buoys. In 2014 and 2015, the Carolina Municipal Police and its Maritime Unit helped us with effective surveillance.
At the end of 2015, the boats of the Municipality of Carolina were damaged and the surveillance that they offered us within a Collaborative Agreement signed in 2014 vanished and with the cuts from the state government, the DRNA cannot carry out the necessary surveillance. Everything we had achieved in 2014 and 2015 was lost.
Faced with this situation, the Management Board decided to start the Reef Watchers program, activating volunteers and using photography as a tool to make complaints and given the lack of state and municipal surveillance, the only option left to us was the photographic complaints.
After three years of asking the DRNAR to inform us if the complaints we were sending them were being processed and receiving no response, at the end of this year, Lic. Mildred Sotomayor helped us and organized a meeting with department personnel to coordinate the installation of the new demarcation buoys for the marine reserve. We thank Lt. Ángel Cruz, Nilda Jiménez, Peréz Prado, Paola Quiñones and Carlos Diez for attending the meetings with the purpose of reinstalling the buoys.
